Software Engineer II- Backend, Marketplace/Maps/Membership/AV

About The Role

Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products.

About The Team (We Are Hiring For Multiple Teams)

We are building the future of Uber's mobility and logistics platforms. As a software engineer, you will contribute to high-scale, strategically critical systems that impact millions of users and redefine the global transportation and membership landscape. Our teams drive innovation across critical areas including:

• Maps & Routing: Building the core technologies for location accuracy, sensor data processing, and state-of-the-art routing algorithms to power ETAs, navigation, and matching for all Uber products.
• Uber One Membership: Enhancing user experience and growth for Uber One, a fast-growing program providing members with exclusive benefits, best prices, and priority across the platform.
• Delivery Marketplace: Delivery Marketplace is a central pillar of Uber's delivery products, serving as the "brain" of the operation. We drive every decision that enables orders to go from point A to point B - from Uber Eats & Grocery, to newer verticals like Uber Direct and Connect. We're responsible for everything: from dispatch decisions, predicting food ready time, delivery times, and optimizing pickup times, to ensuring we deliver the most efficient and impactful solutions for Uber's most critical business goals
• Autonomous Mobility & Delivery (AM&D): Pioneering the integration of autonomous vehicles into the existing ecosystem, tackling the complex challenge of building a reliable, efficient, and scalable hybrid marketplace for both Rides and Eats.
  
  

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions
• Collaborate with product managers, cross-engineering teams, data scientists and other partners to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Identify opportunities and lead of the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to deployment
• Conduct thorough code reviews, offering constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and elevate coding standards
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our software systems and recommending appropriate integrations or improvements
• Participate in periodic on-call rotations and be available for critical issues
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or Go
• 1 year of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• More than 3 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience
• Proven experience building highly available distributed systems (at Uber scale) and working across multiple backend services
• Experience working on scalable backend systems utilizing a microservices architecture
• High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing
• Experience with optimization techniques and algorithmic development
• Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis
  
  

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits., For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.